STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION

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THE SECOND WEAO STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION

Test your environmental design skills! Work on a real design problem with a consultant & municipality! Winning team gets expenses-paid trip to New Orleans, LA to compete at WEFTEC in 2010!

The Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO) New Professionals Committee (NPC) is pleased to announce the upcoming second WEAO Student Design Competition. This competition is intended to promote “real world” design experience for students interested in pursuing an education and/or career in water/wastewater engineering and sciences. This competition will be held at WEAO Annual Symposium on April 18, 2010, in London, ON.

The student design competition concept is based on the Water Environment Federation (WEF) WEF® Student Design Competition, a competition held annually at WEFTEC. The WEAO Student Design Competition is intended to select a winning team among Universities and Colleges in Ontario that will compete at the WEF® Student Design Competition at WEFTEC in October 2010 in New Orleans, LA.

This year’s design problem has been kindly provided by The Regional Municipality of Durham. The problem statement requests that students review background information, evaluate potential alternatives, develop conceptual design ideas, and present a program meeting the requirements of the problem statement. The WEAO Student Design Competition Guidelines, Entry Form, and summary of the design problem could be found lower on the page.

The WEAO New Professionals Committee (NPC) is always looking for interested persons to help further the activities supported by the committees. If you are interested in helping or becoming a member please contact Charlie Chen.

WEAO Student Design Competition (SDC) Schedule

Date	ACTION ITEM – WEAO Competition	WEAO CONTACT
Aug 6, 2009	WEAO to distribute the Competition Guidelines and advertise the Student Design Competition on its web site.	Charlie Chen, NPC Chair Charlie.Chen@aecom.com
Oct 31, 2009	Deadline to submit the Entry Form to WEAO. WEAO to distribute the detailed problem statement and post background information on web site.	WEAO Student Design Competition Coordinators Rina Kurian rkurian@rvanderson.com and Bernardo Majano bmajano@rvanderson.com
Apr 1, 2010	Deadline to submit a package containing hard-copies of the design notebook. Package shall be postmarked no later than this date.
April 18, 2010	WEAO Design Competition presentations.

SDC Documents (PDF):

SDC Guideline

SDC Project statement

SDC Announcement

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2008/2009 U of T winning design report and presentation:

WEAO Rosebank Presentation (PowerPoint)

WEFTEC Final Design Report with Appendices (PDF)